Daily Telegraph - 100 writers choose their book of the century

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At the end of the 20th century Daily Telegraph ran a series where a writer (usually British) would name their single choice for the "Book of the Century". 100 writers participated, including Arthur C. Clarke, J.G. Ballard, P.D. James, Patrick O’Brian, Salman Rushdie, Mordecai Richler, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Anthony Powell, Anita Desai, John le Carre, Carol Shields, Barbara Cartland, and Ruth Rendell.
There are only 96 books on the list because some were chosen more than once (In Search of Lost Time by three writers, and The Leopard and 1984 each by two writers).

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  1. 51.
    Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930
    by Robert McAlmon

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  2. 52.
    Danube
    by Claudio Magris

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  3. 53.
    The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
    by William Manchester

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  4. 54.
    Joseph and His Brothers (Everyman's Library)
    by Thomas Mann

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  5. 55.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

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  6. 57.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  7. 58.
    Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  8. 59.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  10. 61.
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    Endless Adventure
    by F.S Oliver

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  11. 62.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  12. 63.
    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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  13. 64.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  14. 65.
    Good Company: Diaries 1967-1970: Volume 5
    by Frances Partridge

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  15. 66.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  16. 68.
    A Glastonbury Romance
    by John Cowper Powys

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  17. 69.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

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  18. 70.
    All Quiet on the Western Front: The Illustrated Edition
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  19. 71.
    Getting of Wisdom (New Windmill)
    by Henry Handel Richardson

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  20. 72.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  21. 73.
    The Problems of Philosophy
    by Bertrand Russell

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  22. 74.
    History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)
    by B. Russell

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  23. 75.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  24. 76.
    The Last of the Just
    by Andre Schwarz-Bart

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  26. 78.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

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  27. 79.
    Quiet Flows the Don
    by Mikhail Sholokhov

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  28. 80.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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  29. 81.
    Last and First Men (SF Masterworks)
    by Olaf Stapledon

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  30. 82.
    The Poems of Edward Thomas
    by Edward Thomas

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  31. 83.
    William Trevor: The Collected Stories
    by William Trevor

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  32. 84.
    Proud Tower
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

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  33. 85.
    Pigeon Feathers
    by John Updike

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  34. 86.
    Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  35. 87.
    Mr. Fortune's Maggot (New York Review Classics)
    by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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  36. 88.
    The Loved One
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  37. 89.
    The History of Mr. Polly
    by Herbert George Wells

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  38. 90.
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    Down with Skool!
    by Geoffrey Willians

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  39. 91.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams

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  40. 92.
    THE STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE.
    by Chester. Wilmot

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  41. 93.
    Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)
    by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  42. 94.
    The Inimitable Jeeves
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  43. 95.
    The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1, 1915-1919
    by Virginia Woolf

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  44. 96.
    The Tower: A Facsimile Edition
    by William Butler Yeats

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